Day of Daggers

The Day of Daggers occurred on 28 February 1791 when hundreds of French nobles with concealed weapons (including daggers) went to the Tuileries Palace to protect King Louis XVI of France while the Marquis de Lafayette and the French National Guard were putting down riots in Vincennes. The National Guard feared that the nobles were counter-revolutionaries who were seeking to take the king out of the palace, and a confrontation between the National Guardsmen and nobles ensued. The standoff ended when the King forced the nobles to give up their weapons and leave the palace.